At a ministerial meeting in Paris 30 donors agreed on new common rules for reporting domestic refugee costs as Official Development Assistance (ODA) and paved the way for some Caribbean island states hit by Hurricane Irma to become aid eligible again.

The medical humanitarian aid organisation Médecins Sans Frontières has taken the Indian Patent Office to court over a patent it recently granted to Pfizer for the pneumonia vaccine, Prevenar 13. MSF argues that the patent will stifle competition, blocking the development of cheaper, generic versions of the vaccine.